The dovetail neck joint on the Russell custom “Waimea “slack key guitar has been cut on both body and neck. The back and sides on this guitar are flamed curly Koa, the neck is Honduran Mahogany, and the soundboard is German Spruce. The three photos below show James doing the fine fitting of the dovetail joint using strips of sandpaper.
The Madagascar Rosewood sides are bent and in the Deep Lake mold. The tail block and the Honduran Mahogany neck block are glued in place. The Deep Lake is our 16″ lower bout jumbo model, and this one is for a guitarist and songwriter in Anchorage, Alaska.
The bookmatched Madagascar back was thicknessed and glued together tonight and is in the gluing jig drying overnight. The next step will be gluing in the spruce side braces and the kerfed linings.
The new Russell slack key guitar is coming along. Here is a close-up shot of the European Spruce soundboard and bracing, showing the fan bracing going through the diagonal transverse brace.
This shot shows the full soundboard fan bracing with two soundholes in the upper bout. There is a one piece cross-grain spruce reinforcement around both soundholes. This is a custom soundhole design. By not having a center soundhole and extending the fan braces further up, more of the soundboard will be excited by string vibration.
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